Kairi and Nick were running as fast as their feet could carry them. They made it back to the entrance of the city when Kairi crashed into whoever was entering city limits. Nick pulled her to her feet and dusted her off. She opened her mouth to say sorry when she recolonized the boy. The same boy that was staring into the lab’s window hours ago and next to him was a white sheet of paper. She snatched up the paper and gasped.

“You broke into the professor’s lab!”

“Kairi! Don’t yell such accusations!” Nick shrieked, shocked that kindly Kairi made such a statement.

“Nah. She’s right.” The boy grumbled, pulling himself to his feet. His eyes narrowed on the couple, rather miffed for a reason beyond being pin pointed as the criminal. “I did it. I raided Elm’s lab and set fire to all of his research that I did not need.”

“You….! You did what?!” Nick shrieked.

“How could ya do that?! That was his livelihood!”

“He was being rather uncooperative with handing over what I needed.” The redhead approached Kairi and grabbed the top of the paper with his forefingers. She refused to let it go. He glared harder at her, as if he was trying to burn holes into her head but Kairi stood her ground.

“It’s not yours.”

“I think you’re mistaken,” he spoke slowly, edging closer to her face. “These papers are now my property.”

“You’re the one mistaken.” She swung a fist and landed it right across his cheek. The boy rubbed his jaw, scowling.

“You shitty little bumpkin, you’re trying to piss me off?”

“If doing what is right pisses you off, then yes.” Kairi made a motion with her hand, understanding, Mittens stomped on the boy’s foot. He howled in pain and jumped back.

“You fucking bitch!” With a shout a Shroomish was released from it’s pokeball. The mushroom pokemon fired a string of seeds at Mittens as if it was unloading a gun. Kairi made another motion with her hand and Mitten curled into a ball. She rushed forward in her ball like form, kicking up dirt, and ran over the Shroomish. Mittens plowed over the mushroom pokemon before it could even make a second attack, knocking it out. “Piece of shit pokemon!” the boy snarled, returning the Shroomish to it’s pokeball. He didn’t waste a heartbeat to approach Kairi and slam his elbow into her face, breaking her nose, and snatching back what he stole.

He quickly ran the hell out of there when he heard the girl speak in that stupid tone.

“Black?”

“What kind of name is that?” The redhead scowled. He dropped his trainer ID. He couldn’t believe that shit. Would nothing go his way or what? He stormed back to the girl, threw another punch and took back his ID. The brunette was at his friend’s aid in an instance and rushed her to the nearest pokecenter. Kairi resorted to shoving tissues up her nose, saying there was no time and rushed back home. The two pre-teens were greeted with quite the surprise of seeing the professor’s lab on fire. The flames were not huge, most of them nearly snuffed out, thanks to the firemen at the site. The two pushed their way through the crowd and to the devastated professor, who was a sobbing heap on the ground. Kairi approached the poor man and pat him on the back.

“Thar thar professa,” Kairi put on a smile. “Your research may be gone, but you’re still okay! You can try and again and with this from Mr. Pokemon you have your first step!” She offered the egg to the man. Professor Elm stared at it for a moment. Once he realized what he was looking at he suddenly started to shake.

“This… this is it…? Mr. Pokemon’s discovery? A pokemon egg?!”

“Yep!”

“Pokemon aren’t born from eggs!” Nick cried in dismay, throwing his arms into the air.

“Now, now Nick.” The professor sighed, accepting the egg from Kairi. “We don’t know that, I’ll have to research that and see where it take me! I’ll build myself back up!! Just you see!” he managed to crack a smile. “Thank you for running this errand for me you two. Now please take care, the journey to be the best trainer is a long and hard one. I’ll call you if anything comes up.” the two bid the professor a farewell. Kairi quickly scanned the crowd before Nick dragged her out of down. She noticed a police officer and hailed him over.

“What is it miss? We’re rather busy here.”

“I know that sir, but what I needta say is about the problem here.”

“Really now?” the man looked rather skeptical.

“Yes, I was in Cherrygrove City, returning from an errand for the professor with my friend here,” she motioned to Nick. “when I ran into a boy. He had paper from the professor’s labs shoved into his jacket and he admitted to stealing them and committing arson! We got into a scuffle and he broke my nose.”

“So, did you get a good look at him?” The officer asked, flipping open a notebook.

“He got all up in her face,” Nick sighed. “we both got a good look at him.” Nick raised his hand several inches above his head. “He was about five-two, real skinny and really pale with freckles. He was a redhead, and by the looks of it, a natural one. And some black eyes.”

“What was he wearing?”

“A black jacket, some jeans, pretty sure they were navy colored, and black dress shoes.” Kairi piped up.

“Alright, you may not know it, but did he manage to slip his name?”

“He dropped his trainer ID card in the middle of out scuffle. The name written on it was Black.”

“Just Black?”

“Yeah. It’s probably a fake name but it’s all we have to go with.”

“Alright, thank you very much.” the two nodded and ran out of the small town. With smiles spread across their faces they ran into the tall grass without a care.

“Do you think we can make it to Violet City before night?”

“Maybe if we run…”

Finally, their very own pokemon adventure would begin!